On 5 Dec 2006, at 03:31, geni wrote:
As in, photos that are provided to the media so they can write puff pieces about them...presumably the publicist owns the copyright, and presumably it is legal for the media to use them this way. So presumably also legal for Wikipedia to use them as the lead image for relevant articles. But possibly not legal for downstream Wikipedia content reusers...
Also may not be legal to edit the images which pesents problems. Would need to see the exact terms of the release though.
I have never seen the terms of the release on a wikipedia "publicity" photo. Many of the pictures that are labelled as such clearly arent anyway, but it would be good if people would find the terms of use. They probably exclude redistribution...
Justinc